Woman Found Dead

DIGEST

April 30, 1995|Staff reports

RIVIERA BEACH - — Police are trying to figure out who killed an elderly woman in her home sometime this week.

Relatives found Ernestine Mortimore, 75, dead at her home in the 1400 block of West 36th Street about 5:30 p.m. on Friday. Police and the medical examiner's officials refused to discuss how she died. The death is being investigated as a homicide.

Neighbor Hattie McDowell said she had not seen Mortimore since Tuesday, which is unusual because Mortimore enjoyed working in her yard each morning.

On Friday, Mortimore's daughter and son-in-law rushed to McDowell's home next door after finding Mortimore dead on the floor in the front of the home.

McDowell was stunned by the violence in her neighborhood.

"She helped watch around here for us," McDowell said. "I say, who is going to do that now? Who would do all this ugliness?''